After the Storm,
All night, in the pauses of sleep, I heard
The moan of the snow-wind and the sea,
Like the wail of thy sorrowing children, O God
Who ory unto thee.
But in beauty and silence the morming broke |
Qlarflow ing creation the glad light streamed;
And earth stood shining and white as the son |
Of the blessed redeemed.
Oh, glorious marvel in darkness wrought |
With smiles of promise the blue sky bent,
Af if to whisper to all who mourn
Love's hidden intent.
it
a
hree Shadows, |
VOLUME XV,
1 Jooked and saw your eyes
In the shadow of your hair,
As a traveler sees the stream
In the shadow of the wood ; }
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And I said: “My faint hear! sighs, !
Ah, me! to linger thore,
To drink deep and to dream
In that sweet solitnde.”
1 joined them. No one seemed to want
‘him, Maud, with her usual perverse
| ness, had given him a eareloss grosting,
| and turned away to lavish her brightest
| smiles and merriest speeches on Gilbert
| Livingston, a man oe he cordially
{ hated and despised. Mrs. Wellington
| alone seemed to need him. She was
nervous, weak and timid, dreading the
{ journey, and unable to control her
i children's madness, so she olung to
| Thornton with instinotive trust in his
| sober strength, He never dreamed,
| being blind as men are, that Mand saw
{ every motion that he made, that she
| had so placed herself as to hear every
{word he spoke. He only saw, with
i wrath and shame, that she was flirting
| openly, desperately, with that soulless,
| brainless Livingston.
Bat even Thornton shook off his
| gloom when they came among the hills,
| The highest peaks were white with
i snow, reflecting the setting sun with
| dazaling brilliancy against the marvel
ious blue of the sky. It was very
i cold, but clear and still, when they left
over I" she said, low, unnatural
VOiIee.
“I'm
anxiously,
* Do try to help them," she pleaded,
80 earnestly that the men all resolved
to try, though it was of so little use.
Taking a rope Little tied all the volun
teers firmly together ; even the
ing swell," Livingston, as Goorge
called him, offered to help. When all
was ready they crept along the west
ern side of the house with little dif
culty. Bat when they reached the
corner they went down like planks,
They tried again and again, and then
came back into the house tired and ex-
hausted.
its
afraid 80," he answered,
1 looked and saw your heart
In the shadow of your eyes,
As a seeker seeks the gold
In the shadow of the stream ;
And I said: “Ab, me! what art
Should win the immortal prize,
Whose want must make life cold
And heaven a hollow dream
1 looked and saw your love
In the shadow of rour heart,
As a diver sees the pearl
In the shadow of tho sea;
And I murmured, not above
My breath, but all apart
“Ah! you can love, true girl,
And is your love for me ¥
early darkness made the terror of tha
storm more awful, Maud still strained
her eves through the deepening gloom, |
The storm at that moment was at its
height. Clatehing the window frame
tightly with her fingers she pressod
| her dilated eyes against the pane, and |
| the cars for their drive of a few miles, SW with speechless horror the roof of
| Mr. Little met them with his six-horse | the large barn swept of as if it had
| stage; the wind had not left enough been paper. It was all ie more ter
| snow on the rising ground for sleigh- rible because not a sound of the falling
{ing, to Maud's regret. It was an ex. timbers could be heard above the
| hilarating drive. The clear air made | Seaseless roaring of the wind. .
| each inhalation an increasing joy. The It was an awful night. No one
| langhter and the sweet, ringing voices Nw of sleepiag. They clustered
| of the girls no longer jarred upon him; [gether about the R02 afte} terror,
{he was a boy Himself, and startled | *rom ima 1a he hg dittle spoke
{ them by his wit and gayety. Maud was reassuringly. 16re Was no danger for
| delighted. She warmed toward him, thems Ives, he said; the house Was |
| and left poor Livingston shivering out | Hrmiy built; large beams passed Ciagon-
of the sunlight of her favor. It was all ally 1 rom floor to ceiling through the
going to be a perfect success, she parlition walls; it was not possible that
| thought, and blessed herself for the | they could give way.
| inspiration. hearts were not easily assured, Maud
., alone had no thoughts for herself or
The hotel, when they reached it, |, “oo. 0 Wo, 0 8
after the stars had come out superbly in | fless barn, and she strove to pio.
Rosgelty,
AN EAST BLOW.
The summer hotel amoung the moun-
tains was almost deserted. Half a
dozen of the late-staying guests were
gathered in the little parlor for their
last evening. A high September wind
turned their thoughts to the desolate
ness of the winter months in the White
Hills. Msud Wellington, always a
leader in talk and sotion, called to the
landlord : ;
“Oome here, please, Mr. Little; tell
us how you ever live here through the
winter ?" |
“Wa'al, you jest come up here and
She had seen
«ae roo
|
THRIFT OF THE PEOPLE,
Some Facts Concerning the Distribution eof
Gevernment Hounds,
No.
Cirenlar 223 from the census
ordinary interest to the people. Its
purpose is to show as nearly as possible
the distribution of registered bonds, or
rather the ownership of the national
debt, It shows the number of male
and female holders and the amount held
in the several States and in 117 cities:
less than 8500 to $50,000 and upward.
According to the register of the treas.
ury the whole amount of the registered
| FACTS AND COMMENTS,
Feet and Foot Wear,
A Lyon (Mass) letter says: As by
{ common consent the ladies are consid.
| young fish than of children in that city.
| For while more than half the children
die belore the age of five, the fish com-
missioners say that only about two per
are destroyed,
About 30,000 people in the city of
The
the different roads
ol
During t
railroad companies.
pended there by
in wages will foot
annually,
i
{ natural that we select for comparison
| ladies’ foot-wear., In New England the
| shape of the foot is rather flat, broad,
{and a medium instep, The style of
| boot worn is of neat, modest Appears
| ance, with a broad flat heel. The vamp
{ is ont plain, the top of the boot is a
| plain curve, and a black boot is inva
Congress
| a button is a favorite. Leather shoes
mestig holders and by banks at the time
250, It appears that the aggregate
number of holders of bonds were as
follows:
Hate
6a
i
; §825 917 1 100.00 1060.00
Omitting the six per cents from the
calonlation we find that of whole
other bonds
£2,202 were males, 29 320 were females
and 1,027 are coporations, and of the
amount held the males owned $327,185,
500, the females $90 358,350 and cor.
porations $2327,451,600, The average
per head adds: For male
the
of course representing |
uals of both sexes), $148, 953 20. |
No loss than $410,279. 400 was held
in amounts of over 850,000, 858730.
individ
Bruised and burned in the Spuyten
Duyvil (N. XY.) disaster—his arm con-
sumed to the elbow and the throes of
death wpon him-—Oliver B. Keely
thought of his wife and sent her a mes-
sage of love~* Write to my wife and
give her my love"-—a last, precious
message to a gtr oken heart. That man
| fort, service an dgeneral neatness—ohar-
| acteristios unconsciously adopted from
the surroundings of every-day life
{ Tho shape of New York feet differs
| ttle from New England.
Doctors Among the Boers,
There is no man a Boer has greater
| reverence for than a doctor] yet those
| in the Transvaal are mostly unqualified
| practitioners or quacks of the most an-
| dacions kind. But he will drive miles
| to feteh one of those fellows, and hand
| over the fee with a grown, without a
| thought of disputing it. The rapacity
| of these practitioners is incredible, Not
| many months ago a Boer living on the
highroad to Pretoria called in a local
doctor to sttend his wife, Everything
i
| doctor asked as his fee $750, and got it.
And this man had only driven
some eight miles to the farm.
A more amusing incident happened
| when another doctor was called upon
by a Boer, with an urgent request that
he would come out to his farm to at
tend a sick man,
“How far is the farm?" asked the
| noross the toes and higher at the in
[ step. Yonr New York consumers de-
mand style and fit. They want the
{ vamp cut lower and longer; a heel
“* About twenty miles.”
“ Twenty miles—twenty pounds, A
pound a mile.” To which the Boer
agreed, and went away to fetch his
“spider.” On returning he found his
friend a little the worse for liguor, but
Mississippi at Minneapolis, Miun., bids
| fair to become one of the most notable
| structures of the werld, It will con.
sist of sixteen eighty-foot spans and
| ferring for material leather of the
lighter grades. New York manufae- |
{ turers manufacture largely for the |
home trade, and a large proportion o |
off he took him up and they drove
away. After going some few hundred
yards the doetor laid his hands on the
reins, stretching one out and hiccup
1,000 feet. It will support two railway
State.
Philadelphians are very slow to make
** One mile—one pound.”
The Boer, willing to humor him, gave
falls
$500,000,
the London Zoo-
There is a bird in
try one of our east blows! I tell you,
the clear air, looked as if prepared for
ture the fate of Thornton and the two
| stock, in distinetion from a finish that
is dull and pliable. There is also a de-
mand for cloth shoes, or sloth top with |
leather vamp and heel piece, known as
DOBG~
“Two miles—{two pounds.” This was
too much even fora Boer, and he turned
and drove back, doing as best he conld
pm A SSB.
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD,
Prevention and Treatment of Milk Fever,
One of the best methods of prevent-
ing milk fever is to feed the cow several
weeks to several months before ealving
—aooording to its danger—if in winter,
on ordinary dry hay only, with a quart
or so of wheat bran, night and ning,
to keep the bowels open ; if in summer,
let her ran on a poor pasture, snd at ali
times have a large lump of Liverpool
rock salt to lick at pleasure. If the cow
has been dried off a couple of months
before due to calve, Bir the
to parturition, and if the bag shows ex-
tra full, then begin to daw a small
quantity of milk from it two weeks or
less before her time, and inereuse this,
according to the fullness of the bag, till
the calf is dropped ; then milk her
clean after the calf has sucked, at three
equal intervals in every twenty-four
hours, In the meanwhile do not in-
crease her feed for a month or more, till
all daneer of fever is If the
cow has continued to give milk up
to within a few days of the time
for her to calve, as is sometimes
the case, then perhaps it will not be
necessary to milk ber till after calving,
Keep her dry and sheltered from storms
and from excessive cold or heat, See
that the water she drinks is pure, and
that she has all she wishes to take at
least three times per day, Never let
this water get ioy cold, and after caly-
ing give it slightly warm for a few
days. As soon as affected, if not al-
ready in a comfortable stable, put the
cow into one, litter the floor well, and
always keep this dry snd clean. One
of the most simple and effectual
scriptions for this disease is a
pound of Epsom salts dissolved in three
or four quarts of warm water mixed with
two tablespoonfuls of sweet spirits of
600 in amounts varving from 825, 000
to 850,000; from $10,000 fo 8 5,000,
logical garden called the homnbill,
you don't know anything about the
whose keeper stands ten feet off and
nitre. Wet up a small feed of whest
bran with this, If the cow will not
a siege. It was closed, except a few
| “foxed ” shoes. The extremities of | without advice.
rooms on the ground floor of the west
mon with him, without food, without 2
I know a third case, where a doctor
maountings. You only come up here
when it's warm and nice, and Mr.
George he drives his team around, what
d'ye call it? ;
“Tandem I" suggested George.
“Yes, tantrum; and he takes you
irls to drive, and it's all very pretty.
est let him be here in the winter, and
he'd drive tantrum, sure enough.”
“Wouldn't it be fun?’ asked Maud.
“Wonld you really take us in if we came
up next winter
“] guess most likely I could. You'd
have to kinder put up with things,
though. I'd be real glad to see you,
nzow; the winters is awful lonely I”
“I am in earnest, and I will come if
the rest will. 1 think it would be
jolly,” ssid Maud.
“Yes, quite too awfully. ghastly
jolly,” murmured ber brother George,
whose slang was overwhelming.
The others all promised they wonld
join her if she formed a party, and the
next morning they separated and forgot
all about the plan ard the promise, as
people do.
It was late in December. The holi-
days wero approsching. Maud Well
ington wa: restless and dissatisfied.
The seascn bad been very disappoint-
ing. Everybody was dull and stupid;
Germans were tiresome, dinners more
80, and she was tired of Boston and
every one in it. And all this was be-
cause a certain Thomas Sedgwick
Thornton had not appeared in the city
2s she bad expeeted. It was none the
less tne becanse she would have de-
nied it, and that she had always langhed
at him, and professed to hold him in
the most perfect contempt. She knew
perfectly well that he was a hard work-
ing lawyer in New York with little
time for holijay making, but she was
ite unreasonable enough to think
that such trifles as business made no
difference. He ougkt to have admired
her enough to have made any sacrifices,
snd made haste to continue the sum
mer's scquaintance. It made no differ-
ence to her, also, that there were many
others as assiduous in their devotion as
he was remiss. He was the Mordecai
at the gate, and she was unhappy. The
wind howling round the corner of the
honse took her thoughts back to the
last evening in the mountains, snd a
sudden resolve made her spring to her
feet.
* Mother,” she cried, rushing irto
the warm library, where her mother sat
dozing before the fire, “I have made
up my mind, We will go up to the
mountains and see how they look with
the snow on them.”
“Yon crazy girl! we won't do any-
thing of the sort.”
Mrs. Wellington always made a point
of seeming to oppose her daughter's
plans, but she always did just what her
children told her to do. Mand wast-
ed no words in entreaty, but coolly told
her that she must go, without any more
ado.
With Maud to decide was to act.
George was delighted with the prospect
fire, with no roof to shelter them, and
perhaps crushed by the falling timbers,
for it had been too dark to see the ex
tent of the disaster, She told no
of the sight which she had witnessed.
Only she and Little knew what had
happened. All that was best in her
and south sides. On the north and
east every blind was securely fastened.
“ Have you had an east blow yet?”
asked Maud, as they dashed up to the
door.
“No, miss; not yet,” said the land-
lerd. “1 guess we will hev, pretty
quick, though. The maountings hev
kinder looked like it all day.”
“1 hope it will come. 1 should con-
ole
night. Never again could she silence
her better, nobler self, Very base and
sider our whole trip a failure if it contemptible seemed all her wiles, her
doesn’t.” caprices, her coqnetries, It had been
Mr. Little shook bis head and smiled | Mer Wild folly that had placed Thora
doubtfully. “I guess when you've seed ton in this danger. It she had not de-
ope vou ‘won'h be likely to ‘want to see layed the men they could have returned
another very quick.” to the honse before it was too late, If
The next day was gloriously clear. he were alive when morning dawned he |
There was Bo wind stirring as yet. It should know how bitterly she had re
was this stillness that roused the fore- peisted, ; : h
bodings of the landlord. His guests | She remembered how she had trifled
had s magnificent walk, they said; they | Fith him when cnce the ‘summer be-
climbed part way up Starr King and fore he had told her that he loved her
had a view a hundred times more su- | Wore than he had ever loved any being
perb than they had ever imagined it | before or ever could again, She had
could be. It had been hard work not meant to Jrive him away from her;
climbing over the slippery rocks and she had only meant to tease him for a
they came back to the house delight. ltt. But he had taken it all in
fully tired and in undiminished spirits, | 470¢st, and now
The general hilarity flagged not dur. | 0¢8#ed to think of h
ing the cozy evening round the huge, her. : EH
open fire, and one and all pronounced would he have been so silent? She
their satisfaction and delight—all ex- | little knew that the man who was all
cept Mrs. Wellington, who had not | Sincerity could not understand the in-
stirred from the fire all day, and who | SiBcere.
grew more and more nervous ss the
£2
er except to despise
He wonld never care for her
talk about the expected east blow eon. | COUT#e, and sbe loved him with all the
tinned. forca of her strong, ungoverned heart
In the morning Mr. Little's pre- After that night of agony she could
dictions were verified. The city peo- | BeVer be the same.
ple's ears were startled by what he had | Lhe pale daylight dawned upon her
so often described as the ‘“‘roaring of White face. The wind died slowly
the maountings.” This strange, steadi- | 40Wn as the sun came up the troubled |
ly inereasiog roar, which seemed so in- | °KJ: The ruin of the night was re-
explicable, filled some with alarm, some vealed to the weary watchers, ‘
with most enjoyable excitement, Mr, . Three men came slowly up the hill,
Little calied them to see the * churn- | 'ired, hungry, half-frozen, but safe.
ing of the clouds up the chasm,” and, They had made a comparatively warm
looking, they forgot to smile becanse | Dest for themselves in the hay, where
he pronounced the ck of the last word as | they bad passed the sleepless night.
he did in the first. It was a sight not to | 11 part of the barn which sheltered
be forgotten, a grand, terrible sight, as | them and the cattle aud horses had
the angry clouds came up, rolling over been uninjured, and not A man or beast
and over, as it seemed, through the gap | had been hurt by the falling beams.
which opened out toward the east. Mrs. Wellington could not be in.
Within the house there were hurried | d3ced to remain an unnecessary mo-
reparations. Mrs, Little and her sons | Ment in the terrible place, and late in
went sbont making everything as fast the afternoon the subdued party were
as possible, while her husband and his | 0 the cars returning to Boston. Thorn.
two men went to the barns to give the | to confessed that it was the most un
cattle and horses food and water to last | comfortable night he had ever passed,
them till the storm had passed; for but that he would cheerfully Lave un-
when it had reached its height, neither dergone far greater hardships for the
man nor beast could stand against it (reward that it brought him. Before |
Thornton, George and his classmate they had reached the city he had
prepared to go down to the barn and learned of the agony which the night's
help them, for the time swemed very SUSpense bad been to Maud, and sh
short, Every moment the tempest in- had acknowledged her love for him in
creased in violence. Quick as thought | duswer to the passionate reiteration of
Maud wrapped herself in her fur cloak, | !i® devotion to her. And this was the |
and said she wonld go with them. Her work of an East Blow, Harper's Bazar. |
mother was so distressed that she would TL
have desisted, but that she caught The Editor and the Smallpox Doctor
Thornton's look of disapproval and dis- It wus nearly noon, and the city edi-
gust, she thought, and then nothing tor in his sanctum 2
could bave prevented her. Seizing her | finishing touches
of Ba “laa he mad k brother's hand she rushed out of the
such a “lark; he had not DOWD | house. The barns were west of the | Inter.Ocean loeal room were grimly
what to do with the holidays. Notes | pote], some little distance down the pondering )
were immediately sent to those who had hill. The wind carried them on as if | work would fall to them when the cus- |
been with them when the proposition | they were straws, and drove them tomary *“ Book ready, gentlemen,” |
was made, and to several others who | breathless against the building. Maud | should be heard. his
ight be Sangenial spletia, a en had never dremmned of its force. When | The city editor had just decided that |
ey writen nearly ud sald, | they were inside the barn, and the door | the church reporter needed a little re- |
ih period o i to. willoto had been closed with difliculty, Thorn- | laxation, and booked him for a dog |
that Mr. Thornton. 1 aot tol kb. 0 er, ert oy | fight, when, in response to a rap on the |
L If yon do | door, he ejaculated in his blandest |
would add much to the general hilarity, the h instantly y om. *Coma™ en |
but I am alridd it woulda's © © re not go back to the house instantly you | tones, * Come.
book, while the waiting scribes in the
85.000 to 810,000,
£2500 to 85,000
; from $1,000 to $2,500,
30; from 8500 to 81,000, $13,
than 8 HH, 87,505, 004,
I'he number of persons was as follows:
from
3,070 950
3 (119 7
oll; less
Classes
Malos, Fomalos
N %
»y
FOR
rim
Totals
«
tosses grapes at the bird so rapidly
that nobody's eye can follow them
through the air, but the bird's eye can,
catching overy one in its bill at almost
every conceivable angle; of half a
dozen grapes shot at him in
cession, he will not miss more than
In this country he could get a
firs! class position in the national base-
ball league,
one,
Ex Governor Bagley, of Michigan, |
who died not long ago, was a very sue
cessful man in business and eccentric
in his habits of life. In hi
directed that his employes—those who
had made his fortune—should not
suffer by his death. They wera to be
retained in the service of his heirs, for |
& time at least, and on the day of the
style are seldom worn in Philadelphia, |
and the demand is free from any very |
marked peculiarities. Baltimore people
are hard to suit, but, once suited, hold to |
agiven style for a long time. They want |
a shoe handsome in outline and finish, |
loped vamp and often scallups at |
the top of the boot. The foot is longer |
or narrower in the hollow of the foot,
and needs to be fitted tight to the last,
From Baltimore, too, comes a demand
for large sizes, often as high as nom. |
ber nines, which is large for a lady's |
shoe, These, of course, are for use on |
Bouthern plantations, and in this market
the widest, |
The distinctively Bouthern foot is |
narrow in the hollow of the foot and
widens at the ball. The shoes worn
attending a patient called at the house
ninetsen times in one day, asking for
his foe at each visit, and managing the
business by calling at the front door,
leaving through the kitchen, and going
rouid to the front again. But then he
was a bit drunk too,
The fees are given in written promises
to pay, called * gool-fors,” as Boers
seldom keep sums of money in their
houses ; and these *“ good-fors™ are
readily taken at any store where the
Boer is in the habit of trading, the
storekeeper knowing that they will be
his produce. — Blackwood,
Some Yary Old People,
At 92 John Bojourner, of Louisiana,
14.790
abd
Tolals................ LT 7814
It is gratifying to observe that in|
{
rs reside in cities, and they hold 85 per
The following table shows the geo
distribution, omitting cor |
Rection
L840 101
The thrift of New England is appar.
Of |
This does not come from
from the memories of
Massachusetts shows the lar
10,408. These three States
who hold bonds. Massachu-
who work in her many manufactories.
or 32.60 per cent,
rent of $644,900, 400 (omitting the six
Masachunstts, Pennsyl-
Distriet of Columbia—an excep
onal location, for it is natural that
many of the thousands of government
should put their earnings
into the bonds with which they are
necessarily so familiar. The Territories
with fourteen investors holding in all
The sectionul distribution
y 18 as follows (corpora-
tions omitted):
Section. By Males, Per cont.
: £5 15.83
Middle States, , ,....... 208.925 1M 68
Southern States, ....... 3.18
Westorn States ........ 43.57 5, BH 13.82
books
43
Total ...........
Section,
£327,185, 500 100.00
i Per cont,
23.06
61.74
r Females,
20,820. 550
55,788,100
n
iy
£
him out and ask all the rest who were Wili Bop Do able Je go at all
there.”
“ Right you are!” said George, “I'll
send an invite to the old duffer; he's
not half a bad fellow, after all Of
course he won't put in an appearance.”
But it is the impossible which hap-
pens. For some occult reason Mr.
Welinton chose to join this wild expe-
dition, and presented himself at the ap-
pointed time at the rendezvous. With
the exception of himsell and poor Mrs.
Wellington, who looked already vic-
timized, it was as gay a party as Boston
could farnish.
As usual, it was Mand who was leader
and prime favorite. But she was admi-
rably seconded by three of her friends,
only a little less bridient and daring
than she. Then there were two or three
society men who would have gone any-
where that Maud and her set proposed,
Little did they care for the grandeur of
mountain scenery in its severe winter
dress, but the trip promised much fun
and unlooked-for opportunities of car-
rying out certain intentions, Last and
noisiest of all came George Welling-
ton, a Harvard Sophomore, with an
equally reckless and hair-brained class-
mate, whom the ladies alternately
petted, snubbed and used as foils in
their most serious schemes,
Mr. Thornton felt out of his element,
as he had done so many times during
the summer. He was not keyed to the
rame pitch of high spirits and unceas-
ing gayety. He was grave, quiet—a
man who was terribly in earnest about
everything he did. m the first mo-
ment that he saw her he became fasci-
nated with Maud, against his will and
betier judgment. Her beauty, wit, ca-
prices, would not let themselves be for.
gotten. He was angry with her, he
heartily disapproved of her a dozen
times a day; and then, when he was
most indignant with her, he discovered
that he loved her with » love which he
could not reason away uor live down.
He was more bitterly enraged with her
than ever to-day, as the cars rapidly
bore them toward the mountaigs. He
roared so they could scarcely hear each
other even then. Maud was biiterly
ashamed of her folly, but not one whit
afraid. Even Thornton conld not help
admiring even while he blamed her, He |
asked Little to take her and “the boys"
back to the house. He himself, being
strong and large, would stay and help
the men. It was the best plan. The
four had a hard fight to return. Hold-
ing each other's hands, one keeping |
behind the other as much as possible, |
they struggled up the hill. Once they |
fell flat to the earth, but regaining their |
fect after a moment they toiled on and |
reached the protection of the house.
Little said be had never seen ths “blow
come on so fast.” There was no use in |
his trying to go back to the barn ; the
men would do what was necessary, and |
his strength wes halt used np in
efforts already.
eyes were fixed on the barns. The
others gathered round the fire in awed
silence. The terror of the storm was
upon them. It seemed as if nothing
could stand against its violence. Mrs.
Wellington was nearly fainting with
fright. She was certain that the house
in a strained, hard voice,
* Mr, Little, how long does this sort
of thing generally last?’
“ Wa'al, it begins abaout noon to be
the worst, and it keeps it up till next
morning.”
¢ Ought not the men to come up pret-
ty soon?” she asked again, with ill-con-
cealed anxiety.
Oh yes, they'll be up directly, I
But they did not come. Once Mand
saw three figares creep arcund the
putiially sheltered side of the building,
ut when they reached its front they
were struck down, and she saw them
crawl on their hands and knees back in
circumstance struck her.
Little
geen.
Calling Mr.
cursed himself and his folly in having
\
N
The knocker eame, and proved to be |
and the medical persnasion. Said he, |
“How do ?” and the greeting being re- |
turned, he resumed: :
‘* You see, haven't been around late
ly; been busy; little matter in the
paper I was going to ask vou to say
something about for me; would have
been np before, but been busy; so much
smallpox about; I've been nursing one
man with smallpox for eight days, and
only just ran away now to—"
“W.h-a-t? Get out. You don't
want to see me. It's a man outside,
Here, hil”
And the city editor hollered for the
contagious diseases editor and rinderpest
reporter. This member of the staff,
who draws a princely salary for doing
balloon excursions in the summer and
epidemics in the winter, was absent
however, having stepped out to buy a
sealskin overcoat,
The doctor continued :
,it's short; don’t trouble;
{only an item. Bad case? Yes,
| as 1 was saying, eight days—"
| “Get out!”
{| “Afraid of smallpox? There's no
| danger. After eight days"
{ “Get out! Write a letter to the
paper, and we'll print it! Get out |”
The request to get out was here ac-
companied by demonstrations, and he
got. That is, the caller got as far as
the passage, where he was told through
the keyhole to communicate by postal
card, which ecard can be soaked in vine-
gar first, and then read with a telescope
from the top of the shot tower, -
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The manner in which various butter.
flies break through the shell of the
cocoon is very interesting, Some drop
| & minute portion of lignid from the
mouth, which #oftens the shell ; others
exude acid, and others still pierce the
shell by means of protuberances with
which their foreheads are furnished.
Polonaises of black moire silk will
2,888 5560
10,842,150
21
11.99
Western States, , ........
. £00,8568,350
Total................
Btates to invest in government securi-
ties will be found in the table showing
the number of private bondholders to
State. That table we give, excluding
the District of Columbia:
Massachusetts, .. 950 Kansas, ..........
New Hampshire,
Vermont 670 West Virginia
S80. Colorado
Maine........
Pennsylvania
New Jersey, ......
260 Tennessee, ,......
240. Territories
240: Florida. ..........
130 Bouth Carolina, ..
100° Texas
100: North Carolina, 7. ,
70 Alabama
60; Mississippi
40 Arkasneas ,........
40 Minnesota
30; Nebraska
30 Oregon
Virginia. ......... 380 Georgia
Wisconsin 30
Statistics are given from 117 cities.
The bulletin closes with the distribu-
tion among banks and other corpora-
tions, as follows:
Corporations, No,
National banks, , 335
Savings banks, , 483
Private banks,,, 88
Insur, companies 478
Trust companies 187
Exp. companies, 6
Maryland
Delaware
Kentucky
Michigan
Amount,
£10,251,400
131,224,400
10,994,150
60,857,450
19,484,060
640,100
Ler capita,
£3,060 12
271,686 18
124,083
127,316 +
98,423
106,688 3:
1,627 $227,421,600 $148,058 2
~ New York Herald,
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Confusing,
Bishop Bloomfield has been a wid-
ower and had several children. He mar-
ried a second time a widow with a
family. One day he asked a country
clergyman to dine with him, telling
him: “You will only meet onr family
arty,” The clergyman found a much
arger number assembled in the draw-
ing-room than he had anticipated, and
was introduced by the bishop thus:
“These are mine, those are hers and
Totals
be worn | white satin and black vel-
vet stri] for underskirts.
those are ours,”
presents as follows : Fifty dollars to all
who had been in his service five Years, |
fifteen years,
On a cold night a prisoner who was |
being court martinled on the United |
States flagship Lancaster, at Nice, |
Fravce, broke from his guard and
leaped into the water. Some sym
are scalloped. Materials are nsed of the |
brightest finishes. Facings are of lively |
colors. White stitching is often seen |
Often, toe, a flower, |
tion, traded with white or colored |
stitching, relieves the plainness of the |
material. Until recently lace boots |
have been preferred to buttons, snd |
& neat bow is often worn at the |
bottom of the lace. The Western people |
At 109 Richard Leonard, of St. Au-
gastine, Quebec, was burned to death
in his cabin while lighting a fire,
Rachael Brown, of Hagertown, N. J,
was 115 on New Year's day. She can
still do a day's work if need be.
The evangelist, Archibald MoArthur,
who died recently st Dunoon, in Beot.
land, was born on Beptember 5, 1777.
Mrs. Haldeman, of Mahanoy City, Pa.,
of the marines, pushing them aside,
jumped in with clothing and equip-
ments on, caught him after swimming
150 feet, held him under water until he
on deck with soldierly rigidity and |
gravity,
the Alps at the time. The corporal
ded for promotion,
ir
Boston and Amsterdam. Bir E.
and Dr. Jacobus Westheim, of Am.
sterdam, representing investors in Hol.
land, have just bought two million
Marshall & Co., of
London,
good part of levee lands in the Yazoo
delta. A Nashville syndicate holds
100,000 nores in Tennessee and Missis.
Constitution, scarcely a commercial
paper is without its advertisements of
Southern land schemes,
The town of Dennisonville, near the
south end of New Jersey, has a singn-
trees out of a swamp where they have
lain for hundreds of years. The swamp
{is ten miles square, and the trees are
piled to an unknown depth. The dig-
ging has been going on for ninety years,
{and but « fraction of the timber has
The trees are large,
and the wood, whch is perfectly pre-
| served and not even waterlogged, is
{ ured for making shingles, tubs and
| pails,
| at the depth of a few feet, by prodding,
| clear away the earth and roots and ent
them off at top and bottom with a saw
like that used to cut ice, when the logs
| rise in the water and are hauled out.
It is supposed that the trees grew there
when the swamp was filled with fresh
water, and that, by some change of |
land, sea water suddenly came in|
and that the trees wore overthrown and |
buried.
A French chemist named Gros pro-
fesses to have made a discovery which
{ the charge brought by each against the
other of having used poisoned bullets
during the late war. This horrid accu-
i
| geons on both sides, who have persisted
| in declaring that poison was present in
| sufficient quantities to baflle their skill.
1
{ liberate human contrivance, but to the
The
| developed in the sides of the barrel a
| small quantity of prussic actd, which
| rapid transit, and this fearful poison
| was consequently lodged in the wounds
| of many a luckless Frenchman and
| German. Hence the reason why it was
| 80 often found to be diffieult, or even
| impossible, to heal even slight wounds,
{ and the doctors on both sides were
{ justified in their declaration that
poison was present. The fact that
similar poisonings of the wounded did
not occur formerly was due, says M.
Gros, to the paper used, which ab-
sorbed the small particles of poison
and regularly cleansed the gun-barrel,
A Smart Towa Girl,
Miss Bélle Clinton, of Iowa, though
only twenty years of age, has proved
herself the smartest girl in the state.
Bhe saved $160 by school teaching, and
borrowing a span of horses from her
father, rigged up a prairie schooner, and
with her little brother for company,
started for Dakota. She homesteaded
160 acres, and added a timber claim of
120 acres by setting ont ten acres of
trees. She has three thousand Llack
walnut trees growing, and expects in
ten years she will be worth $25,000,
She spends the winters at home with
her father, and next spring will take out
mors trees and add 160 acres of new
Jad to her estate by taking up another
claim.
| Louis, where the tendency is more |
Southern. A rough climate needs |
stanch shoes, and more leather is!
really a greater necessity than to any |
other class of wearers,
|
Owned to His Record, |
The editor was sitting in his revoly- |
| ing cane bottomed chair when Tornado |
| Tom, the traveling terror of Texas, |
cameo in and demanded retraction of the |
statement that he bad swindled an |
orphan out of $4.
“It's a lie clear through,” said the |
Terror, striking the table with his |
fist, “I'm as good a man as smells the |
| atmosphere in this section.”
‘* Perhaps you are better,” said the |
editor, meekly. |
“My record'll compare
with yourn,” said the Terror, with a|
| sneer; “ perhaps there are a few little |
| back rackets in your life, sir, that
{ wouldn't bear a microscopic investiga
ion."
| “Oh, sir,” said She editor, visibly
| agitated, “don't recall tho past; don't
| bring up the memories of the tomb; |
| know I've led a hard life—I don't deny
{it. I killed Shorty Barnes, the Bowery
| boy of New York—hacked him all to
| pieces with a kuife. I have atoned for
| it a thousand times. I blew a man’s
| head off at a log-roll in Kentucky, and
| bitterly have I Fepented of my folly. 1
| slew a lot of inoffensive citizens of
| Omaha over a paltry four.dollar pot,
| simply becanse I got’ excited. Ob,
{ could I but cheat the tomb of the men
{ I have placed in its maw I would be
{ happy. But it was all owing to my
favorably |
Robert Warnock, a veteran of 1812,
and an inmate of the Dayton (Ohio)
soldier's home, was cut off by cancer
at the age of 103,
Three Tallahassee warriors, with
their families, survive the chief Chips,
who died recently at Bartow, Fla. It
is said that he was 100 years old.
With memory unimpaired and form
erect as it was fifty years ago, Mrs. In.
man, of Smithfield, N. Y., has begun
ber second century.
Aunt Dorcas, who died on a recent
Sunday in Sumter county, Ga., was'108,
and had outlived all her kindred. She
bad been married three times, but was
childless,
Thomas Shofield, of Montville, Conn.,
01 years old, continues to walk nine
miles to renew his subscription to
the newspaper that has always printed
this item,
John Blszinger, of Camden, N.J.,
who can read without glasses, has cele.
brated his 101st birthday. He was born
near Moscow, Russia, and is an old
soldier. His father lived to be 108.
a
A Woman’s Romantic Life.
Elizabeth Hatzler, who died not long
ago in Philadelphia, was born in 1790,
at Landon, then one of the French pos-
sessions, and when twenty years of age
she married George Hatzler, a sergeant
of cavalry in the French army. While
yet enjoying their honeymoon the hus-
band was ordered to join the memor-
able expedition against Russia, and the
wife determined to go along. Mrs
Hatzler was present at all the princi.
know that I have been wayward,
wicked, and you have a right to come
| here and recall those WEhApDY memo-
{ ries; but it's mean for all that. No
body with a heart would treat a man
| like you have me. Don't leave, stranger;
{ I'll tell you all. I sawed a man's head
{ off with an old army saber just for—"
I'he Texas Terror was downstairs and
half way around the corner, while the
editor, taking a fresh chew of rattle.
| snake twis!, continued his peaceful
| avocations as quietly as a law-abiding
| citizen, ~~8Salt Lake Tribune,
i a -
| A Checkered Life,
The Leadville (Col.) Democrat gives
| the sad particulars of a life wrecked by
| whisky, An old man named Joseph
{ after he had taken a drink at the bar.
| In his end it seems was consummated
| a8 checkered a history as ever fell from
| the pen of a novelist or romancer., The
cow. After the promotion of her has.
had many opportunities to see the em-
peror, and on several occasions con-
versed with him. An accident to her
{ husband separated them from the main
body of the army at one time, and for
nine weeks she dragged him on a hand
sledge over the frozenground. Through
a guide's treachery they were held pris-
oners by the Cossacks for nineteen
months. They were exchanged in time
to rejoin the French army and undergo
the sufferings and privations of the dis-
astrous defeat which almost annihilated
Napoleon's forces, Through all these
vicissitudes the sex of the woman re-
mained undiscovered. Mrs. Hatzler
emigrated tc this country in 1846, and
lived for twelve years on Fort Delaware,
while it was being built by Major San-
| ders. Up to the time of her death she
retained the full use of all her facul.
ties, and it is said that since leaving the
battlefield in 1814 she never sufferer
i
{ Democrat says :
Years ago ho entered Oxford univer-
sity, In his stndies he had developed
a peculiar and marked taste for astrono
my, and at the conclusion of his term
| had studied the science of the skies so
long and well that a chair was offered
him
term of years with honor to himself
and profit to all with whom he was as-
sociated. At last a combination of dis-
| tressing circumstances lured him to
| leave England, and he came tc this
| country. tis needless to trace how he
came to this city four years ago, and
was not long in drifting into the posi.
tion of a public charge. A little proper-
ty in St. Joe furnished him with a pit-
tance every month, and in the interim
he was kept at the county poorliouse.
It was pitiful, beyond all words, to see
him seated among the paupers, listless
and almost nnconscions of what passed
about him. Now and then something
would flit across his face that seemed
almost like a recollection of better and
brighter days, and then he would sink
back into the dark eclipse again, They
called him the professor, because oc-
casionally he would speak in a way that
told his fellow unfortunates that he
was one day better than they, and they
treated him with something akin to
consideration. He will be buried to-
morrow at the expense of the county.
Mr, Webb, a London cutler, was poor
until he hit upon the device of adver-
tising his ware on the splashboard of
the cabs. He left a million dollars to
| any results of her long exposure. She
| spoke English, German and French fla
| ently.
{ Some Long Tunnels,
The longest tunnel in the world, the
| Bt, Gothard passage beneath the Alps,
| was opened for traflic in January, It is
| practically finished now, but like all
| public works is subjected to ‘delay for
| the sake of the last touches, The St.
| Gothard tunnel, however, has been put
| through more expeditiously than most
such enterprises, It was begun in
1872, is nine miles and a quarter long,
and has cost $10,000,000. Burope
and the Alps also claim the
next longest tunnel ever construct.
ed —that known as Mount Cenis—which
was opened ten years ago, This is seven
miles and a half long and cost §15,000,-
000, Next in length comes the Hoosao
tunnel in Massachusetts, four miles
and three-quarters in length, on
whose excavation about $14,000,-
000 was expended. In all three
the powerful modern forces, com:
pressed air and nitro-glycerine or
dynamite, played important parts,
Through postal service between the
English Baril and the Adriatic will
be established by the way of the St.
Giothard tunnel on its completion.
rm AISI A
The Mountain of the Lord is a solid
rock, 100 feet in height, rising above
the street level at Manti, Utah. The
Mormons are building on this emi-
nence a temple of fine marble, 95 feet
by 170 in areas, and} handsomely
3
take it so, then put the salts and nitre
solution into a strong necked bottle,
raise up the head and pour it down the
throat. Repeat this every morning till
cured. This simple remedy rarely fails,
even in the worst cases, if all the above
directions are carefully followed. Rub
the bag with lard, mixed with the last
strippings, every time the cow is
milked. This renders the bag soft and
pliable and prevents the milk from
caking in it.— National Live Stock Jour.
nal,
Farm and Garden Notes,
Keep sheep dry under foot. This is |
even more necessary than roofing them.
Young cows do not give as rich milk
gives poor milk aud a fat one rich milk,
Grass grown on manured land gives
a more nutritive fodder, richer {espe-
cially in albumnoids) than that grown
upon unmauured or poorly manured
land, The difference is sometimes as
great as ten per cent,
A heifer coming in at two years old
is the best time for developing her fa.
ture milking qualities, Comfortable
quarters, generous feed, regularity ia
feeding and kind treatment will do
munch, however, in rearing a fine
milker.
The Gardener's Monthly says that in
England apples are dried whole. They
seem to be first pared and then placed
under pressure, as ther are always
much depressed. A kind named Nor-
folk Beafing seems almost wholly used
for this purpose.
An Ohio farmer wants to know what
per cent, of grain is lost by the process
of threshing, and suggest that farmers
see that their straw and chaff piles are
run through the machine a second
time, and note the result. He believes
that, so far as his kvowledge extends,
susagh is wasted to pay the threshing
bill.
The Asiatic breeds, such as the Brah-
mas and Cochins, if overfed with rich
grain and sueculent roots will soon be
come too fat to be serviceable as layers.
Fowls need to be well fed in cold
weather, but great care must be ex-
ercised with the breeding stock in par-
ticular, as if they become too iat their
eggs are often infertile. Allow plenty
of green chopped vegetables, such as
onions, cabbages and turnips,
Manure the land heavy enough to
make it loose, and plant for several
years crops that could be cultivated
throughout the season; or, what is still
better, grow two crops the same year,
and keep them well cultivated through-
Couch grass can be
easily killed by hoemg it once or twice
the last of July and first of August with
a sharp hoe, cutting the grass an inch
below the surface of the ground.
The complicated character of the nd-
der with its thousands of little reser.
voirs renders it necessary to observe
If milk is Jeft in the udder the |
will readily remove the
watery portion, but the chusy material |
is removed with difficulty and is liable |
to remain and inflame the udder—pos- |
sibly destroy a portion. Every particle |
fall.
till the cow is dry. !
As to the five-wire fence, a short time |
ago I was driving some hogs, and hog- |
like, they “took another notion,” and |
ran right through the wire fence, and |
though the barbs made them squeal, |
they did the same thing again and |
again, and they were not pigs either, |
but hogs that would weigh over 300
pounds. Another objection to barbed |
wires is that horses and cattle in pass- |
ing along or standing near, especially |
in “fly time,” often switch in that di-
rection, aud often stay switched.
A farm can be stocked with sheep
cheaper than with any other gnimals,
Sheep will come nearer to utilizing
everything which grows ou a farm. Less
labor will be required for getting feed
and stock together. The returns will
come in sooner and oftener than with
any farm stock except hogs. Less
money is required for shelter and feno-
ing, and less labor is required for herd:
ing, when outside pasturage is acces-
sible and preferred, And finally, a
bandsome income on the investment
can be had withont the sale of the
animals tk_omselves.
Recipes,
Ke Grorer's Pubuixa.— One” pint
of breadcrumbs, half-pint of flour, tea-
spoonful of baking powder sifted in
flour, a little salt, balf a pound of
raisins, quarter of a pound of currants,
quarter of a pound of chopped suet,
coffeecupful of milk, one egg; tie tight-
ly in a bag and boil three hours; to
be eaten with hard sauce.
Fisapatrs.—To make fishballs, cut
or pick codfish in small bits, take care
to remove every piece of bone ; let it
soak in cold water for an hour ; rinse it
in another water ; let it cook slowly for
twenty-five minutes ; season with milk,
butter and eggs ; mix with ‘his about
double the quantity of boiled potatoes;
add milk or cream to give the desired
amount of moisture ; shape in round
cakes, roll in flour, and fry until brown
in hot lard, If the lard is not hot when
they are put in they will soak up the
fat and will be unpalatable, :
Anson
is 98, His grand
home! You see a lamb frisking
mother's side, sad js moment; while
its heels are kicking AT,
have it down before you. Hines
ing to travel in I
tainly take a
ey twinkling of e. I have
@ an eye,
seen pictures of moving crowds, o
ships in motion, of men ;
horses racing, taken b:
with the most
TR ————
When to Advertise,
An old merchant, who had -
habit of a Maik 18 |
abit of sa nthe
theory) that the most peer ty.
advertise freely is when times are
dullest. Accepting this as fact, the
present is a good time to advertise, Be-
fore the holiday trade was brisk, but
since it is not 0 brisk. Hence mer
chants do not advertise go freely. Here
erence, advertising should be more
brisk. If merchants have bargains to
offer now is the time to indues pur-
Tor rials and oe Book That
watch for i a al
their shelves and invite
dust.— Chicago Times.
Oil of cloves is good for tooths
A few drops on a bit of botton.
Heavy persons growing too ston
comfort should stop eating b
tatoes, sugar, etc, and {a
above-ground vegetables,
eto, : Bot
Celery boiled
the milk served as a |
to be jure far shen :